The beauty of Fire Emblem isn’t just the addictive gameplay or wild card of character death or even the awesome story but that deep down, it is still a very robust turn-based strategy RPG, as a new trailer for Fire Emblem: Awakening from Red Entertainment and Intelligent Systems showcases.

Character level-ups that increase their stats are well known, but the interesting part is the changing of classes with Seals. Master Seals upgrade a character’s class, such a Knight which can become a General or Great Knight.

Secondary Seals allow characters to change their classes entirely, and then subsequently upgrade to higher classes.

Fire Emblem: Awakening will be released for Nintendo 3DS on February 4th in North America and later in April for Europe. The game will follow a brand new storyline with a new graphical style but will feature classic series characters like Marth (or some one claiming to be him).